[Freedos-user] Re: Re: lbacache

[Eric A. <er...@Co...>]

Hi Roberto,
good to hear that switches=/e fixed your problem. This setting
tells the kernel not to move the EBDA (similar to MS EMM386 NOMOVEXBDA
setting). We found that moving the EBDA often has unwanted side effects,
although it is really interesting to hear that it broke the combination
LBAcache / compiler this time.

LBAcache with size 7004 / 6974 bytes is the newest version. You can
also check the file date. I left away version info from the help screen
because I often forget to update it (last happened a week ago with MODE)...

> lbacache FLOP
This will - because you give no "BUF number" argument - use the default
size of 2 MB cache. If you want for example 3 MB, use
lbacache BUF 12 FLOP
(size unit is 1/4 MB - maybe a bit strange but changing to unit 1kb as
with other caches now would probably confuse people who got used to the
old syntax. Maybe I could interpret all values > 100 as kbyte ;-)).

You use DOS=UMB and DOSDATA=UMB, but I see that you do not load UMBPCI
or EMM386, so I guess you have no UMBs at all (EMM386 is the driver for
UMB and EMS - if you load UMBPCI instead, you get only UMB) and the
DOS=UMB / ... settings have no effect.

> disk 0x80 heads=0008 sectors=0032
> Award Modular Bios v4.51PG
> CPU Type Tillanook-MMX

Strange CPU unless you meant Intel Pentium III Tilla-something... Is it
an embedded one? 266 MHz are more than enough for DOS. You seem to have
a relatively small harddisk (C*8*32 geometry). Award BIOS 4.51 often has
problems with disks > 32 GB, so if you want to upgrade... 64 MB RAM are
fine for DOS, too. More than that. You can even use not-too-new Windows
and Linux on such a system.

Back to LBAcache: I hope to find the time to create a slightly more user
friendly version in the next days (new STAT screen, easier to read than
the INFO screen, and some other smaller changes). Stay tuned.

Eric.